BENEFITS OF MASSAGEAlaska Therapuetic Massage

Massage has many benefits....

Whole Body HealthMassage offers a competitive edge for sports players, singers, or your everyday employee seeking more energy and focus. Gain awareness of your body, and a feeling of balance and wholeness, which allows you to be nicer to your body by realizing and then lessening it's limits.

Massage increases range of motion by breaking down scar tissue and stretching muscles and fascia. Increasing lymphatic flow heals you, as your lymphatic system is integral to your body's health maintenance. Lymphatic fluid is pushed along by muscular movement and has no pump, so movement of your body is required to keep it flowing. Massage increases lymph flow. This removes waste, increasing immunity.

Another great way to improve lymphatic and vascular flow is by incorporating Far Infrared Sauna Therapy into your treatment. Our Infrared Sauna prepares your tissues for the work by increasing lymph flow and flushing toxins from your system. Heat often relieves connective tissue disorders such as Fibromyalgia, Tendonitis, and Arthritis (please request this additional service at the time of booking).

Improved CirculationHow can massage decrease your heart rate while increasing circulation? As your blood is pushed through your circulatory system, your heart is able to slow down and pump more effectively. Blood is your body's personal repair system. Improved circulation brings about the return of blood to the heart, and in turn, pumps new blood throughout the body. This results in more oxygen, nutrients, electrolytes, and antibodies being carried to your muscles and vital organs, and metabolic waste being removed promptly.

RelaxationHow often do you have a quiet time to just let your stress go? A soothing touch can calm you, help you fall asleep, and cause your muscles to forget how tight they are. Stress reduction is proven to prevent many diseases . Massage can help you return to your daily activities pain and anxiety free after emotional stresses or injury accidents.

Postural AlignmentMuscle tissue, along with other body tissues, gets out of alignment just as our bones do. By releasing fascia, breaking down scar tissue, and treating hyper-toned muscles, massages can help your body open up. Its seems that most of what we do today pulls our bodies forward, such as reaching for the keyboard, the steering wheel, the vacuum, lifting children or pets, and so on. We need something to pull us back up and out. Massage is that something. Whether you have your spouse, friend, or child rub your shoulders or you come in for a professional treatment... get a massage!

Energy BoostWe need energy! Massage gets your blood moving. Massage reduces fatigue as lactic acid is removed from your blood. Even though your blood is constantly pumping throughout your body, some veins and arteries may not be fully expanding and collapsing, causing waste to get caught up. When certain muscles get tight they can pinch arteries, causing reduced blood flow to the brain. Relaxing muscles allows your blood to flow freely, giving increased energy to each muscle as well as to your body as a whole, which helps prevent clots and strokes. By manually pumping the blood through, you are able to have full vasodialation, which is the main reason you want to drink extra water after a massage.

Injury Treatment and RehabilitationWithin the first couple days of injury, an excess of tissue regrowth can occur, which may cause adhesions and or scar tissue. Immediately following an injury, other muscles will compensate for weakened structures. Massage addresses compensating muscles to reduce their fatigue. As time passes and bruising disappears, scar tissue and adhesions can be broken down at your injury site. Massage is an excellent way to advance healing caused by sports injury or auto accidents. Massage can heal whiplash, jaw, neck, facial pain, nerve impingement, back pain, leg pain, and foot pain. Increase your rate of recovery by adding a Far Infrared Sauna Therapy to your session.

Increased Chiropractic SuccessAs muscles relax and shift into place, your bones gain a better chance at returning to their intended alignment. I believe that chiropractic work without massage will cause the need for indefinite amounts of adjustments as the tight or displaced muscles pull the bones back out of place due to tissue memory. Because soft tissue retains a memory of where it is in the body it will migrate back to where it use to be, even after your bones are adjusted, pulling your bones back with them. Massage helps make soft tissue memory fuzzy. This way, pull on the bones will lessen each time and there will be need for fewer adjustments when massage is added into the mix. I also believe that massage has much better treatment results when combined with chiropractic care.